The art of creating creatures

Theo Jansen a Dutch artist shows us his living creations which will be able to survive on their own.
He uses an array of electric pipes to design his creatures. These creatures resemble living insect like animals and walk just as if they were alive.













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Keywords and phrases for teachers

Project
new forms of life
electricity tube
eventually
live in herds
on beaches
evolution
survive
on their own
in the future
mechanical
beast
energy
feathers
walk sideways
opposite direction
create
species
build
genetic code
winning codes
multiply
store the wind
tides
drown
proportion
invention
axis staying on the same level
heavy loads can be moved
survive the dangers
feeler
suck in
resistants
brain
binary
step counter
dunes
drive a pin into the ground

This project is about new forms of life, made of electrical tubes that will eventually live in herds on beaches. Evolution will show which creatures will be able to survive on their own in the future.

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